Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com> wrote:

(In http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-October/057251.html) Eyal Lotem wrote:

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Name: Attribute access for all namespaces ...

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global x ; x = 1 Replaced by: module.x = 1

Attribute access as an option would be nice, but might be slower.

Also note that one common use for a __dict__ is that you don't know what keys are available; meeting this use case with attribute access would require some extra machinery, such as an iterator over attributes.

This particular use case is easily handled. Put the following once at the top of the module... module = __import__(__name__) Then one can access (though perhaps not quickly) the module-level variables for that module. To access attributes, it is a quick scan through module.__dict__, dir(), or vars(). Want to make that automatic? Write an import hook that puts a reference to the module in the module itself on load/reload. - Josiah